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Trans Mountain update…

Project timeline

Canada approved the Trans Mountain Expansion on June 18, 2019. The work is subject to 156 conditions that the regulator ensures are carried out. The most prodigious condition of construction is always the cleanup or reclamation.

The stated goal of this project’s reclamation efforts is to protect the environment, have a small impact on land, and return it to its original function if there were to be an impact.

Wetlands, Farm to be returned to function if disrupted.

Trans Mountain has committed to this in writing in the application conditions in the approval and in more generic terms in its newsletter and of course by doing it along the way. Some things are mitigated when the original value is degraded and the enjoyment of local life enhanced by mitigating a recreational or environmental legacy for communities.

There are many specifics in this month’s trans mountain today on plans and opportunities for the reclamation of the progressive and completed work.

These are us!

This is us, we own this as Canadians at this point, and the value of our citizenship is being communicated by the care and control of this endeavor. Let’s look at this as a legacy for the civility and attachment to successful completion and mitigation during a very challenging time in our life. Fortune follows the brave and while not viewed as heroic the fact that it goes through us, bisects our land, and curates our landscape with a common compliment, is indeed a legacy, we should brood. Because it was done right when other things were wrong. Done right in the way that patient progress passed the clamor of fears.

Marie Antoinette, said. “you take the cake” spoof

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

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On this Day: November 2nd 1775

Marie Antoinette was born.

Natural, Imagine Dragons

Pipe for oil field File:Photo KDG

Covid-19 update for BC, November 1st, 2021

Highlights

Surgeries will be rescheduled for all. Unpaid leave for unvaccinated staff caused operating rooms to close.

Editors note; some countries are having trouble with counterfeit vaccination certification to pass on transportation, this may make it imperative to vaccinate all here, including with boosters.

Call today even directly, it is as “important now as ever” Health minister.

More energic time, re sun…

In 2019 the sun started an 11-year sunspot cycle according to NASA. We just had a mass ejection on the sun and there is still a chance to see some energetic green aurora this weekend.

The strongest part of the storm and the best time to see the Northern Lights is expected to arrive between 5 and 8 p.m. ET on October 30, according to the NOAA’s predictions.

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If the northern lights can be seen tonight, it will be low on the horizon. The rotation of the earth makes it hard to predict.

TGIF- Happy National Oatmeal Day

File Photo KDG

Start your day

Oatmeal is no dog’s breakfast…

The life-giving staple of the many; nutrition and exercise are good things both can contribute to making for a good day.

On this Day: October 29th 1740

James Boswell Scottish lawyer and author born.

Deer on the local links, golf follows breakfast

Fleetwood mac

Stay safe you don’t have to be anything but yourself today.

Bodycam protocols, body-worn cameras

File Photo KDG

The UBCM is having a part in the implementation of Body-worn cameras through its Public Safety Canada working group.

The group will take concern with the financial impacts of the equipping of police with body cams on local governments. The aim is to increase public trust in police through quicker court actions by using video evidence. The equipping of cameras will be a check on racism as well.

The estimated per-unit cost is 2000 to 3000 dollars.

On this Day: October 28th, 1726

Gulliver’s travels are published.

Happy Boxershorts Day

The prudent dress of the enlighted, elastic, exiting man.

How to observe boxing shorts day.

I am not going to touch that line with a ten-foot pole.

Please no Boxer shorts!

Charity pickup boxes

File Photo KDG

On this Day: October 27th 312 CE

The vision of the cross by Constantine.

BC – Covid -19 update, October 26th, 2021

Adrain Dix and Bonnie Henry present…

Highlights

Booster shot coming available for elegable (after 6-8 months time elapse since full 2 shots.) Higher risk first; LTC is now underway.

Breakthrough cases.

Other juristictions about the world.

Humoral immune system.

Humoral immunity is the aspect of immunity that is mediated by macromolecules – including secreted antibodies, complement proteins, and certain antimicrobial peptides – located in extracellular fluids. Humoral immunity is named so because it involves substances found in the humors, or body fluids. It contrasts with cell-mediated immunity. Humoral immunity is also referred to as antibody-mediated immunity.

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Optimal time for third shot, hope is that the immunity may last for years.

Booster shot program planned to go to May. Registration to get invite, drop ins not going to be used. January will see invitations sent out…

Respect personal space! KDG

Drop Cover Hold On

The Trans Mountain Pipeline people had a course on earthquake reaction techniques recently. The drill is a for Quick Drop, Cover, and Hold On protocol. The skill will develop a sense of safer place to wait out a quake by locating a large piece of furnature by a interior wall and position your self by DCH.

Pipe for oil field
File: Photo KDG

Sobering note to post on!

Earth quakes, natural disaster sand all kinds of physics conspire with human error to make an interesting life for us all. Duck and cover is a good skill set to maintain a view of the world around us. Remember to get up again and keep on going. More to the point allow others the same grace. We are all connected some how to each others error, omissions and adventures. Good luck and carry on…

Thank you providence for my youth in Merritt BC and the time and grace given by among others, the Trans Mountain Pipeline as it established here, giving us a future, not perfect, with flaws that were most often a reverse side of opportunity, if we were smart enough to see them.

Know as the trans-mountain apartments
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On this Day: October 26th 1859

The Royal Charter Storm kills 800 people in England.

BC Covid-19 update October 25th, 2021

8,294,900 comulative approved vaccine doses delivered to BC.

The province has administered 97.9 percent of the Covid-19 doses to the province, the 8 million one hundred twenty thousand four hundred fifty-eight jabs have provided for 79.6 % of the population getting a single dose with 74.6% of the province securing two doses. This data was published at 11:36 CST Monday.

Source Covid-19 Tracker Canada

Canada Vaccination

Canada has administered 57,910,473 doses since December 14th, 2020, and 24,569 dosed yesterday.

The restart is going along and vaccination is making the lifting of gathering restrictions more attractive with every dose administered.

BC Clean 2030, Government media access: questions and answers:

Media access, contains 7 seconds on Covid-19

Government media access, October 25th 2021: Health questions and answers 41.43 – 48.17…

Workers vaccine mandate LTC

5-11-year-old mandate waiting on the federal government.

Blue Grotto concert, Kamloops

Distance , Wash hands,Masks in general

Local School board offloading

On this Day: October 25th 1995

A train bus accident in Illinois kills 7 students.

TGIF- Happy National Sloth Day…

Two toes or three slow down today!

Today is national Sloth day, the animal is adorable and no threat to anyone. It was really on October 20th but we were a little slow, good hey,. What other day can you do that a be right.

Habitat needs protection, don’ be slow with that.

The habitat of this creature needs attention, what else is new.

Geo cache hidden


File photo KDG

Needs a sloth

On this Day: October 22nd 1383

The house of Burgundy goes extinct for the lack of a male heir.

This week is small business week in BC.

Look back a decade to a small business week (Olympics Tenure)

Merritt BC pre 2010 Olympics, optimism reigned…

On this Day October 21st 1805

The Battle of Trafalgar.

Driven to succeed; as the tide comes in we wait on our approval of efforts.

long time local business

Natural world

LOCAL BIRDERS
NICOLA VALLEY NATURALISTS

The Nicola Naturalists are having their members photo night. The venue is tomorrow night at the NVIT lecture theater at 7PM.

NVIT top of the hill on Belshaw avenue in Merritt BC.

We keep the necessary business meeting short so there is ample time to enjoy local nature photos taken by our talented membership. We haven’t seen members’ photos on the big screen for many months so this will be a gala occasion.

NNS

On this Day: October 20 1879

Light bulb begins patent process..